Sweden takes over the presidency of the EU Council for six months. Portrait of a state in the far north that has long been a symbol of tolerance and has now moved far to the right.
Farewell to Büllerbü, or the always sunny and cheerful idyll à la Astrid Lindgren, commentators wrote after the elections in Sweden last September. In the country itself, there was little surprise at the swing to the right – the Swedish Democrats, who emerged from the neo-Nazi scene, were the big winners. For a long time, asylum policy was particularly generous when measured by population, Sweden took in more refugees than any other EU country until 2015. Then it became too much – the state closed its borders. But Sweden is still dealing with the consequences of the huge wave of migration. Drug and gang crime has increased significantly in recent years, with 250 shootings this year alone resulting in nearly 60 deaths.
Source: Krone
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